Chapter 12 – Epilogue

It has been written that in the Elves of the Woodland realm leaved their home to never return in the 4th age.
Middle-Earth belonged to the race of men now and Thranduil felt that the Elves and the only dwelf did not belong anymore in Middle-Earth.

At the Grey Havens, Tauriel looked for the last time to Middle-Earth. She smiled, she would miss it here but was eager to start a new life. She had lived in middle-earth for a thousand years. It was time to leave. Knowing that she will see her friends Bilbo and Gandalf again who leaved Middle-Earth many years ago gave her great joy and all the Elves who had died defending their home in the war under the threes. Maybe even her parents who died when she was a young child.

But leaving Middle-Earth will also mean that she will break the connections she had with Kili..
"Mother are you ready?" Asked the Dwelf, alright maybe not all. She nodded at her adult son who boarded the ship.
"Namaarie haba a'mael" she whispered to the lands and followed her son.

When they reached the coast everyone aborted the ship and walked on the coasts of Valinor.
Tauriel looked curious around, until she saw an familiar person sitting on a rock not far from the docks.
"This can not be" she whispered.
Kili looked surprised at his mother who started to run towards a person in the distance. He could not see as clearly as his mother and the other Elves could see and because of this failed to identify the person.

Tauriel ran so fast as she could and the person rose from his resting-place and ran towards the She-Elf.
Tauriel and the other person locked each other's in their arms and the Dwelf looked confused at his king.
"It is a dwarf" The king said surprised.
"It is Kili" said Gallion "I recognize him from when we kept him and the other dwarves prisoner"
"My father?" asked Kili unsure.
"Apparently" Thranduil said.

Tauriel and Kili where locked in a passionate kiss and Tauriel started to cry.
"How?" she asked when she released the Dwarf "How can you be here?"
"I got a choice" The Dwarven prince said while he gently brushed the tears of the cheeks of Tauriel with his hands "When the Valar heard of you coming here they asked me if I wanted to stay in the halls of Mandos by my kin, or receive a new body so that I could finally be with you, something what was taken from me all those years ago"
Tauriel started to cry again and held her prince close at her body
"I have missed you so" she said sobbing.
"So as I'm missing you" The Dwarf said and there where also tears falling from his cheeks.
"I have to tell you something" Tauriel whispered in the ear of Dwarf.
"I think that I know what you want to tell" said Kili..
"How?" Tauriel asked confused.

"My mother ofcourse, do you really thought that she would not tell me this?"
Tauriel smiled, yes ofcourse he knew.
Sadness fell however on the face of the young Dwarf.
"I am so sorry that I was not there when you needed me" Kili whispered.
"There is no need to apologize" Tauriel said with an sad smile "You are not to blame and our son and I got a good life"
"I wish that I could have take part in that" he whispered.
"You have all of eternally to make up for it" Tauriel told him "Do not be sad about things you can not change. Come and meet our son"
Kili smiled and glided his hand in hers.

Galion smiled at the Dwelf by his side who was obvious not expecting to meet his father ever.
"What must I say?" the Dwelf asked his friend..
The Elf smiled to the shorter man "Do not worry about words, they are not important now"

Tauriel leaded Kili to their son and for a moment the two men just standing there looking at each-other.
"By my beard" Kili laughed and graped his son in an embrace "I'm so glad to meet you"

And so ends the tale of Tauriel the Silvan Elf who fell in love with the Dwarven prince Kili.
Time was stolen from them but they got all of eternally to make it right.

Namaarie haba a'mael = sindarin for : Farewell my beloved

Autor Note : This is it, the very end. Thank you so much for your support I hope you liked it.
It was a long and difficult road for me to write such a long fanfic in an other language than my native language but I really enjoyed writing it.
That being said.. I am glad that it's over. Still need to translate 10 of the chapters to Dutch tho...
I know that I broke several Tolkien rules but this is just an fanfic, keep that in mind ;)

- Catharina